In the last trading session, 2.62 million Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.63. With the company’s per share price at $13.00 changed hands at -$1.14 or -8.06% during last session, the market valuation stood at $495.58M. VTLE’s last price was a discount, traded about -348.46% off its 52-week high of $58.30. The share price had its 52-week low at $12.64, which suggests the last value was 2.77% up since then. When we look at Vital Energy Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 1.75 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.18 million.
Analysts gave the Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.67. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 4 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended VTLE as a Hold, 2 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Vital Energy Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 2.05.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) trade information
Instantly VTLE was in red as seen at the end of in last trading. With action -35.32%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -57.96%, with the 5-day performance at -35.32% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE) is -36.27% down. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 5.64 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 3.69 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 27, meaning bulls need an upside of 51.85% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, VTLE’s forecast low is 27 with 27 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -107.69% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -107.69% for it to hit the projected low.
Vital Energy Inc (VTLE) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 6.49% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 7 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 528.76M. 7 analysts are of the opinion that Vital Energy Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 510.74M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 482.34M and 476.37M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 9.62%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 7.21%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 30.67%. The 2025 estimates are for Vital Energy Inc earnings to increase by 11.77%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 3.65% per year.
VTLE Dividends
Vital Energy Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-18.
Vital Energy Inc (NYSE:VTLE)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 22.24% of Vital Energy Inc shares while 78.92% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 101.49%. There are 78.92% institutions holding the Vital Energy Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.7356% of the shares, roughly 4.27 million VTLE shares worth $191.36 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 5.2118% or 1.9 million shares worth $84.98 million as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Feb 28, 2025 were iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . With 1.73 shares estimated at $22.45 million under it, the former controlled 4.53% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held about 2.54% of the shares, roughly 966.7 shares worth around $12.57 million.
